Sandra Fluke

September 22, 2023
Sandra Fluke is the President of Voices for Progress. In 2015, Sandra was responsible for the launch of V4P’s California state program, which grew to include political programming as well as policy advocacy. She was then tasked with overseeing membership engagement and recruitment throughout the western half of the U.S. before becoming National Membership and Development Director. Sandra is an attorney Read More

Tonya Allen

September 22, 2023
Tonya Allen is a leader and a change agent with a passion for co-creating an equitable, sustainable world. In 2021, she became president of the McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation that advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. Tonya heads a majority women, majority people-of-color senior leadership team and a diverse team of Read More

Diego Zegarra

September 22, 2023
Diego Zegarra migrated from Peru in 2005 to attend the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. His journey in the philanthropy sector began in 2009 when he managed education programs and directly worked with immigrant families and their children. With a focus on collaboration and community organizing, he works towards improving equitable outcomes for communities of Read More

Brittany Green Daniels

September 21, 2023
Brittany Green Daniels has served as the Green Family Foundation’s Grants and Operations Manager for the past three years. Prior to joining GFF, she was an Assistant District Attorney with the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office. Dedicated to helping others, Brittany joined her family’s foundation to deepen her connections to the community and help on a larger scale. Although fairly Read More

Molly Lyons

September 11, 2023
Molly Lyons is the senior director of communications at the National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) where she leads the marketing and communications team in providing members and the field with clear and compelling information that helps them more effectively create the impact they seek.  An experienced content creator and strategist, Molly has spent more than 25 years helping others Read More

Yvonne Belanger

September 8, 2023
Yvonne Belanger is the Director of Learning & Evaluation, leading Barr’s efforts to gauge its impact and support ongoing learning—and application of that learning—among staff, grantees and the fields in which we work. Yvonne came to Barr in September 2017 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As Senior Program Officer for Measurement and Evaluation on its Postsecondary Success team, Read More

Brenda Solorzano

September 8, 2023
Change maker, believer in the power of community, driver of innovation and learning and always makes time for play. Brenda has spent her career working for good in the philanthropic world on issues related to health policy, the health care safety net and community health issues affecting vulnerable populations. She is a strategy, evaluation, program and grant making guru with Read More

Arturo Garcia

September 8, 2023
Arturo (Art) Garcia is a strategic learning and evaluation officer at The Kresge Foundation. Art supports the foundation’s program and practice teams by developing and refining strategies, fostering cross-team collaboration and drawing insights from data to advance equity. He joined the foundation in 2021. Previously, Art served as learning manager at First 5 Los Angeles, where he collaborated across the Read More

Sue Banerjee

September 8, 2023
Sue Banerjee is the Executive Director of PC Tots, a non-profit early education and childcare provider serving the residents and workforce of Summit County. She provides strategic and operational leadership for the execution and expansion of PC Tots’s mission of providing equitable access to high-quality care. She holds a juris doctorate from George Washington University and has worked for large Read More

Ana Akhtar

September 7, 2023
As vice president of donor services, Ana Akhtar leads a department of 20 professionals across various operations teams—including gifts, grants, scholarships and consulting – that facilitate the annual distribution of more than $2 billion in grants to over 5,000 nonprofit organizations. Ana is responsible for the strategic direction of SVCF’s donor services to ensure that SVCF delivers value to donor Read More